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10 Fun Facts about the Osprey

If you ever find yourself at a river’s bank, a lake’s edge, or an ocean’s coast, keep an eye out for one of nature’s most skilled fishers—the Osprey. Distinguished by its bright yellow eyes...

Audubon · 6/8/2026

Octopus surge spreads up UK coast as far as Scotland, study finds

Record numbers linked to warming waters is mixed news for fishers, with shellfish catches down but octopus catches booming Record numbers of octopuses found off the south-west coast of England last year have now spread as far as Scotland and Wales and are transforming the fishing industry and the marine ecosystem, according to a study. The surge in sightings of one of the world’s most intelligent invertebrates was first recorded in 2025 off the south coast of Devon and Cornwall. Continue reading...

The Guardian Environment · 6/8/2026

Fisher with a mission: first woman to chair Grayling Society wants to protect ‘lady of the stream’

Marnie Lovejoy hopes to inspire other women to fish, protect England’s rivers and lift up the ‘beautiful’ grayling With its iridescent pink scales and elegant dorsal fin, the grayling is known to anglers as the “lady of the stream”, yet the society fighting for its protection has never been led by a woman, until now. Angling, and fly-fishing in particular, has always been a very male-dominated sport. The fly-fisher’s club in Mayfair, London, where anglers meet to lunch on dover sole and drink fine wine, did not allow women to cross the threshold even as guests until 2024. Continue reading...

The Guardian Environment · 6/7/2026

New records of ‘lost’ bamboo shark confirmed in Madagascar

For nearly 20 years, the blue-spotted bamboo shark, found only in Madagascar, went scientifically undetected and unrecorded. But researchers have now found four new records of the “lost” shark while surveying fishing villages and a Malagasy university’s fish collection. These recent records, and interviews with fishers, suggest the species may be more common than previously […]

Mongabay · 6/4/2026

Fisheries and climate research would be hit hard in Trump’s proposed budget

Physicist Stephen Volz had been working with colleagues at the U.S.’s National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration for nearly 10 years to produce a new generation of geostationary satellites — instruments that would provide critical observations about atmospheric conditions, climate patterns and weather. But when Donald Trump returned to office in January 2025, this long-term project […]

Mongabay · 6/2/2026

Making Waves at California Ocean Day

On April 28th, 2026—officially proclaimed by Governor Newsom as California Ocean Day—hundreds of students, birders, surfers, fishermen, tribal members and community leaders came together in...

Audubon · 6/2/2026